Letters – Page 2 – The Rocky Mountain Goat News

Letter: Corporate responsibility and spraying

May 31, 2019 Arthur Tanga

Dear Mr Kordyban, In response to your company’s 30 day deadline for public response on your Pest Management Plan (PMP), I personally contacted Brett Musa. I left a message with him and he respectfully called […]

Letter: Flip, flip, caribou

May 28, 2019 Arthur Tanga

I was at the meeting in McBride and as always there were extremists on both sides but there were two things that came out. The biologists think they can save a herd that is no […]

Letter: The flip side of the caribou closure coin

May 13, 2019 The Goat

It sounds like the caribou closure meeting in McBride was a feisty, if one-sided, affair. However, when debating these emotional issues, it is essential to examine both sides of the argument or the flip side […]

Letter: To MP Bob Zimmer re: caribou meeting

May 9, 2019 The Goat

Dear Mr. Zimmer: I attended the McBride public meeting on Southern Mountain Caribou Recovery Planning on the evening of April 24, 2019. You were also in attendance at that meeting. I thank you for attending, […]

Op-Ed: Misinformation: The fight to protect BC’s mountain caribou

May 7, 2019 The Goat

You may have heard in the news about a draft agreement on protecting BC’s endangered mountain caribou. Unfortunately, this recovery plan for herds in central BC has resulted in misinformed—and often racist—backlash. Caribou across the […]

Letter: Caribou meeting reduced uncertainty

May 6, 2019 The Goat

When Mike Simpson from the Fraser Basin Council started the Community Engagement Session on Caribou Recovery in Valemount, my interest switched from a bystander to a captivated observer of facilitation in action. The Valemount Community […]

Misinformation re: caribou conservation

May 1, 2019 The Goat

In a meeting with Chief Roland Willson of West Moberly First Nations and Chief Ken Cameron of Saulteau First Nations, Premier Horgan committed to extending the consultation timelines on the caribou recovery partnership agreement until […]

Letter: Missing the mark in a big way

April 6, 2019 The Goat

Charging stations are about so much more than climate change and the future. It was with shock and dismay that I read about Council’s rejection of plans to install more charging stations in Valemount. It […]

Letter: Council chooses wrongly in charging station decision

April 2, 2019 The Goat

Dear Mayor and Council, After hearing Valemount council turned down staff’s proposal to apply to Charge North Clean BC grant program to purchase and install one Level 2 EV charging station in Valemount, I was […]

Letter: Migration to idyllic McBride reflects a trend

March 31, 2019 The Goat

The quaint Village of McBride is often unfairly described as “remote,” and perhaps that was accurate in some distant past. Today, the trip from our front door in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island to […]

Letter: On the caribou town hall with Bob Zimmer

March 27, 2019 The Goat

To the editor: I don’t agree with Bob Zimmer regarding the Town Hall discussion concerning Mountain Caribou area closures. His inaccuracies show a lack of understanding: “People have been going into the backcountry, snowmobiling, hunting, […]